James Wolcott WADSWORTH

(1846-1926)

WADSWORTH, James Wolcott,
(father of James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr.), a Representative from New
York; born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 12, 1846; attended Hopkins
Grammar School, New Haven, Conn.; served in the Civil War as
captain on the staff of Gen. G.K. Warren and was made brevet major;
after the war settled in Geneseo, N.Y., and engaged in agricultural
pursuits; supervisor of Geneseo 1873-1876; member of the State
assembly in 1878 and 1879; State comptroller in 1880 and 1881;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Eldridge G. Lapham; reelected
to the Forty-eighth Congress and served from November 8, 1881, to
March 3, 1885; elected to the Fifty-second and to the seven
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1907); chairman,
Committee on Agriculture (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-ninth
Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the
Sixtieth Congress; elected president of the board of managers for
the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; engaged in
agricultural pursuits and interested in livestock; member of the
New York State Constitutional Convention in 1914; president of the
Genesee Valley National Bank; died in Washington, D.C., on December
24, 1926; interment in the family plot in Temple Hill Cemetery,
Geneseo, N.Y.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present